Teaching and Research Interests
Taxation, Tax Policy, Property, Housing, Real Estate Development and Environmental Law
Teaching Responsibilities
Federal Income Taxation, Corporate Taxation, Partnership Taxation, Tax Policy, Real Property, Environmental Law, and Climate Change Impacts, Law and Policy
Practice Experience
Professor Tracey M. Roberts practiced law for 14 years, primarily in the area of commercial real estate and affordable housing, specializing in tax credit financing, mixed-use real estate development, and sustainable land use planning at Alston & Bird LLP and Arnall Golden Gregory LLP in Atlanta, Georgia, and at Jacobs Chase in Denver, Colorado. She also developed technology projects for four years for Atlanta Legal Aid and Georgia Legal Services Program to expand access to legal information and legal services.
Teaching Experience
Roberts has taught a variety of tax, property and environmental law courses at the University of Louisville Louis D. Brandeis School of Law, the University of South Carolina School of Law, Seattle University School of Law and the University of California Hastings College of the Law.
Degrees and Certifications
- Postgraduate Diploma in Theology and Religion, Oxford University, anticipated June 2025
- LLM in Taxation, New York University School of Law, 2009
- JD, Vanderbilt School of Law, 1994
- AB, Harvard University, 1988
Publications
Book
- Tax Law and the Environment (Roberta Mann & Tracey Roberts, eds., Lexington Books, 2018)
Book Chapters
- Subsidies and the Environment, in Policy Instruments in Environmental Law (Kenneth Richards & Josephine van Zeben, eds., Edward Elgar, 2020)
- The World Trade Organization and Renewable Energy, in Tax Law and the Environment (Roberta Mann & Tracey Roberts, eds., Lexington Books, 2018)
- The Constitutional Grounding for Environmental Taxation in the United States in Aspectos constitucionales controvertidos de la tributación ambiental (Controversies in Constitutional Aspects of Environmental Taxation) (Rodolfo Salassa Boix, ed. 2017)
- U.S. “Support” for Renewable Energy, in La protección ambiental a través del Derecho fiscal (Rodolfo Salassa Boix, ed., 2015)
- Voluntary Standards, Certification and Labeling Systems: Enhancing Efficiency Through Trade of Entitlements, in Market Instruments and Sustainable Economy (Ana Yábar Sterling & Pedro M. Herrera eds., 2012)
Articles
- A Man for His Time and for Ours: Cordell Hull - Father of the Federal Income Tax, 53.1 Cumb. L. Rev 41 (2022).
- Stranded Assets and Efficient Pricing for Regulated Utilities: A Federal Tax Solution, 11:1 Columb. J. Tax L. 1 (2019).
- Greenbacks for the Green New Deal, 17 Pitt. Tax Rev. 39 (2019).
- Tax Relief for Domestic Violence Survivors, Domestic Violence Rep. 19 (Dec./Jan. 2017), updated and republished in 11:1 Fam. & Intimate Partner Violence Q. 49 (2018)
- Picking Winners and Losers: Examining the Structure of Tax Subsidies for the Energy Industry, 41 Colum. J. Envtl L. 63 (2016), republished in Environmental Taxation and the Law 225 (Janet E. Milne, ed. 2017)
- Brackets: A Historical Perspective, 108 Nw. U. L. Rev. 925 (2014)
- The Rise of Rule 4 Institutions: Voluntary Standards, Certification and Labeling Systems, 40 Ecology L. Q. 101 (2013)
- Innovations in Governance: A Functional Typology of Private Governance Institutions, 22 Duke Envtl L. & Pol’y Forum 67 (2011)
- Mitigating the Distributional Impacts of Climate Change Policy, 67 Wash. & Lee L. Rev. 209 (2010)
- Web-Based Tools to Enhance Access to Legal Services, 9 GA. B.J. 46 (Dec. 2003)
- Greedy for the Needy (The Atlanta Associates’ Campaign for Legal Services): A Model for Associate-Level Fundraising, 15 Mgmt. Information Exch. J. 23 – 29 (2001)
- Nurses' Duty of Care at Discharge, 96 AORN J. 126 (1996) (with Susan Ziel)
Other Publications
TaxProf Blog Social Science Research Network Tax Review and Roundup:
- Roberts Reviews The Missing "T" in ESG by Chaim & Parchomovsky, May 17, 2024
- Roberts Reviews Climate Policy Reform Options in 2025, March 29, 2024
- Roberts Reviews New Articles On Moore v. United States By Avi-Yonah & Clarke, Feb. 9, 2024
- Roberts Reviews Hayashi's the Federal Architecture of Income Inequality, Dec. 22, 2023
- Roberts Reviews Tax And The Boundaries Of The Firm By Barry & Fleischer, Sept. 29, 2023
- Roberts Reviews Parsons' Taxing Taxonomies, Aug. 18, 2023
- Roberts Reviews Gift Tax Consequences Of Luxury Hospitality By Crawford, Haneman & Blattmachr, June 30, 2023
- Roberts Reviews Clausing’s Capital Taxation And Market Power, May 5, 2023
- Roberts Reviews Taxing Luxury Emissions By Wallace & Welton, March 17, 2023
- Roberts Reviews Trade, Leakage, And The Design Of A Carbon Tax by Weisbach et al., Jan. 23, 2023
- Roberts Reviews Mann's Targeting Plastic Pollution With Taxes, Dec. 9, 2022
- Roberts Reviews Dagan's Tax Justice In The Era Of Mobility And Fragmentation, Oct. 28, 2022
- Roberts Reviews Carbon Pricing And The Elasticity Of Co2 Emissions, Aug. 23, 2022
- Roberts Reviews A Half Century with the Internal Revenue Code, The Memoirs of Stanley S. Surrey, June 3, 2022
- Roberts Reviews Taxation, Aristocracy, And The Constitution, April 8, 2022
- Roberts Reviews Love's Measuring The Flow Of Partnership Income To Tax Havens, Feb. 11, 2022
- Roberts Reviews Zelinsky's The Proposed Regs On ESG Investing, Jan. 7, 2022
- Roberts Reviews Building Better Conservation Easements, Oct. 1, 2021
- Roberts Reviews Property Tax Privateers, Aug. 20, 2021
- Roberts Reviews New Papers By Hackney And Peck, June 11, 2021
- Roberts Reviews Tax Boycotts, April 23, 2021
- Roberts Reviews Insidious Regulatory Taxes, Oct. 23, 2020
Bar Admissions
- Georgia
- Colorado